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Self-evidently, when writing thus, Luther had no Capernaitic eating and drinking in mind, his object merely being, as stated to emphasize the reality of the sacramental union.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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It holds that the eating of the body and the drinking of the blood of Christ, though truly done with the mouth of the body, is not Capernaitic, or natural, but supernatural.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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While in reality they rejected the doctrine that the true body and blood of Christ is truly and essentially present in the Holy Supper, these Crypto-Calvinists pretended (and Elector August believed them) that they merely objected to a _local_ presence and to a Capernaitic eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ in the Holy Supper.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Supper is neither physical or earthly, nor Capernaitic; nevertheless it is most true and indeed substantial.
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We also utterly reject and condemn the Capernaitic manducation of the body of Christ, which, after so many protestations on our part, the Sacramentarians maliciously feign against us, contrary to the testimony of their own conscience, in order that they may bring our doctrine into discredit with their hearers, as if, forsooth, we taught that the body of Christ is torn by the teeth and digested in the human body like any other food.
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